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Oliver Tappin
Oliver Tappin

Reputation: 2541

YouTube force full screen on load

I've taken a look at the YouTube API and it seems quite clear (for security reasons) that the player (embedded or not) does not allow YouTube video to automatically initiate full screen once loaded.

I wondered if there was a way to do this using Javascript to act as if the user had pressed the full screen button?

Any ideas shared would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2124

Answers (1)

Tim Wintle
Tim Wintle

Reputation: 2433

I'm afraid you can't use the YouTube player API to initiate fullscreen programatically.

This is because the underlying issues with fullscreen in flash and html5 video would make such an api method seriously error-prone.

Official response to back me up:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/youtube-api-gdata/Tyv3vTw0RQk/449KahYVNFYJ

Upvotes: 1

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